Failed disk monitoring

[Donald C Nelson]

Does anyone have a script that can monitor if a disk has gone bad or in the process of failing? I know that there are monitoring software out there but some small companies do not want to purchase any kind of packages.

[Pete Randall]

HP offers EMS (event monitoring service) diagnostics for free:

http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B6191AAE


Pete

[Robert Salter]

Hi Donald,

Are you using LVM? If so you can run this out of cron;
/usr/sbin/vgdisplay -v |grep -e 'LV Name' -e 'LV Status'| grep -i stale

And then you can redirect the output to a file, email, both, etc.

Cheers,

robert

[Donald C Nelson]

Pete, how would I get EMS to send out the alerts and to where.

[Pete Randall]

EMS emails alerts to root on the machine being monitored.


Pete

[Donald C Nelson]

Thanks Pete